I agree that a programmatic API semantically equivalent to SQL – for example like the JSON-based MongoDB API you mentioned – would go a long way making things e

I agree that a programmatic API semantically equivalent to SQL – for example like the JSON-based MongoDB API you mentioned – would go a long way making things easier for application developers and removing the need for ORMs (which I consistently avoid). F1, Google's SQL database, uses Protocol Buffer in an interesting way: https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/41344.pdf https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...